Re: [g-a-devel] startup of a11y tools

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 3 May 2008, at 01:08, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> - What is the benefit of the somewhat forced categorization into
> 'visual' and 'mobility' ? How is orca a 'visual' tool ? I always
> thought it was a screen reader...

The categorisation is presumably by the type of disability that they  
assist with...

> Imo an approach like the one taken by Jon McCann in the new gdm a11y
> dialog (see  http://live.gnome.org/GDM/Screenshots ) is much more
> straightforward and we should look at doing something similar inside
> the session.

Personally I find that rather on the wordy side-- hard enough to pick  
out the setting you want even if you don't have visual or perceptual  
problems.  (And it's not even a complete list, wrt available AccessX  
settings, at least.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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